Ghaleb

Ghaleb is a 27-year-old married man with only one child. He studied until Elementary school. Due to the miserable conditions of his family, Ghaleb couldn't complete his studies. Recently, he has been running his own business raising livestock and selling them in an animal market in Mokala. This is the rainy season and the grace is very much in Ghaleb's area. Ghaleb wants to enlarge his business. As a result, he applied for a loan of 98,000 YER from AMB in order to purchase more goats to raise and sell.

Ghaleb looks forward to expanding his business through opening a large farm and gaining all kinds of vegetables and fruits in order to make a secure future for his family.

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This loan is part of a joint program between Al Amal and the Social Welfare Fund in Yemen to reach the extreme poor who are dependent on grants from the state's Social Safety Net. Al Amal enables these borrowers to establish new enterprises and grow existing ones so they can boost their income and stop living on government funds. By funding this loan, you are empowering the extreme poor in Yemen to lift themselves out of poverty.

About Al-Amal Microfinance Bank

Al-Amal reaches out to low-income micro-entrepreneurs and small business owners in Yemen with a suite of credit, savings, and insurance products tailored for Muslim borrowers. Before lending through Al-Amal, please consider the following:

1) Due to ongoing security concerns, full due-diligence of Al-Amal was conducted remotely rather than on-site. This makes Al-Amal atypical among Kiva's Field Partners, as Kiva staff have not conducted an on-site assessment. Al-Amal's assessment included in-person meetings with the top management in other, more secure locations in the Middle East.

2) Because Yemen is a new and unstable environment, there is a possibility that future loan repayments could be held indefinitely in the country for regulatory reasons, even if individual borrowers pay back their loans. As a lender to borrowers in Yemen, you accept this additional risk.

Additionally, all of Al-Amal's products are Sharia compliant and customized for its Muslim clients. Most of the loans are structured as Murabaha interest free loans. Al-Amal purchases goods for its borrowers and charges them a markup or fee. Al-Amal is also experimenting with Ijarah loans (an Islamic leasing product). For more information on Islamic microfinance, please click here.